After listening to Richard’s pleas to avoid surgery, his doctor relented and decided to put him in a walking air cast hitting just below his knee. He wore it daily and kept at 90-degree position whenever he could.
Solution:
After being in the walking cast for a month and still worrying his bone was not healing, a friend recommended Richard ask his doctor for an EXOGEN Ultrasound Bone Healing System. Richard’s friend had used it the year before on a foot fracture and experienced great results.
“She had done the research, found out about EXOGEN, and it healed her broken foot,” said Richard. “My doctor had not mentioned a bone stimulator to me, so I went back a week later, asked him if I could try EXOGEN.”
Deciding the fracture was now a nonunion, his doctor agreed to Richard’s request and wrote him a prescription for EXOGEN. A local Bioventus sales representative met Richard at the doctor’s office to fit him with the device and show him how to use it.
“I made sure to get my treatment at the same time every night for 20 minutes,” said Richard. “And while EXOGEN was working I watched YouTube videos or read articles on my smartphone. It was so easy and the treatment went by so fast.”